Sandeep Vanga

Sandeep Vanga has a long and varied work experience. Sandeep began their career in 2006 as a Graduate Student at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). In 2008, they moved to CA Technologies as a Software Engineer. Sandeep then returned to IISc in 2009 as a Computer Vision/ML Researcher in the Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence Lab in the EE Dept. During this time, they also worked as a Senior Product Engineer and Computer Vision Scientist at AVK Systems. In 2012, they moved to the Samsung R&D Institute India as a Technical Lead and Lead Engineer. Later that same year, they returned to IISc as a Data Science/ML Researcher in the Laser Spectroscopy Group of the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Dept. In 2014, they became a Data Scientist at Williams-Sonoma, Inc. and in 2015, they moved to Google as a Lead Data Scientist/ML Engineer. In 2019, they joined Episode Solutions as SVP of Technology, Innovation & AI Products, VP of Engineering & Principal Data Scientist, and Engineering Manager & Principal Data Scientist. Most recently, in 2021, they became Co-Founder & CTO at DataOrb Inc.

Sandeep Vanga obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Osmania University in 2006. Sandeep then obtained a Master's Degree in Systems Science and Automation from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 2008. Between 2012 and 2020, Sandeep Vanga took various courses on Coursera, obtaining certifications in topics such as SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9, Getting and Cleaning Data, R Programming, The Data Scientist's Toolbox, Big Data in Education, Machine Learning, An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python, Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 1, Passion Driven Statistics, Social Network Analysis, Computational Photography, Games without Chance: Combinatorial Game Theory, Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1, Data Analysis, Image and video processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a stop at the hospital, Game Theory, Computing for Data Analysis, Computational Investing, Part I, and Introduction to Mathematical Thinking. In 2014, Sandeep Vanga obtained a Master's Degree in MS in Analytics, Data Science, Big Data from the University of San Francisco.